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This week on CounterSpin: A travel ban aimed at Muslims, a wall on the Mexican border, an attempt to outlaw sanctuary cities. Every day of the Trump administration brings new reasons to protest. But the mass arrest of hundreds of people protesting the inauguration, along with legal observers and journalists, tells us that the right to speak up still needs protection. We talk about the right to protest with activist and attorney Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, executive director of the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund.
Transcript: ‘People Have the Right to Take to the Streets’
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Also on the program: In February 2014, tens of thousands of protesters marched through the streets of Washington, DC, to protest the Keystone XL project, the biggest climate march in US history. Last year, the Standing Rock Sioux and other water protectors galvanized the world’s attention with their resistance to the Dakota Access pipeline. Now we’re told those projects are back on the table. But that doesn’t mean they’ll happen. So says David Turnbull, campaigns director of Oil Change International.
Transcript: ‘We Should Not Be Subsidizing an Industry That Is Hurting Our Communities’
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First we take a look back at recent press, including food-stamp smears, Obamacare repeal deaths and austerity politics.
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